Walter Burgwyn Jones (October 16, 1888 – August 1, 1963) was an American judge, legislator, and writer from Alabama.
[2] In 1956, Jones granted an injunction against the operation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People within the state of Alabama.
The injunction had been prepared secretly by state Attorney General John Malcolm Patterson and was granted by Jones "in a stunning abuse of judicial power ... without so much as a public hearing."
While presiding in Sullivan, Jones began by lecturing against "racial agitators" and in praise of "white man's justice.
[8] In the 1956 Presidential election, faithless elector W. F. Turner cast his vote for Jones, who was a circuit court judge in Turner's home town, for President of the United States and Herman E. Talmadge for Vice President, instead of voting for Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver.